- Tyranny, Despotism, Political ethics, Modern History
In previous books, Holocaust historian Timothy Snyder dissected the events and values that enabled the rise of Hitler and Stalin and the execution of their catastrophic policies. With Twenty Lessons, Snyder draws from the darkest hours of the twentieth century to provide hope for the twenty-first. As he writes, "Americans are no wiser than the Europeans who saw democracy yield to fascism, Nazism and communism. Our one advantage is that we might learn from their experience."
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- Author
- Timothy Snyder
- First published
- 2017
- Pages
- 128
- Publisher
- Tim Duggan Books, Olvido Kitap, 聯經出版公司
- Editions
- 21
- Language
- English, nob, Spanish, Chinese
- ISBN
- 9781529193442
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“Most of the power of authoritarianism is freely given.”
Timothy David Snyder (born August 18, 1969) is an American author and historian specializing in the history of Central and Eastern Europe, and the Holocaust. He is the Richard C. Levin Professor of History at Yale University and a Permanent Fellow at the Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna. Snyder is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the Committee on Conscience of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. **Source**: [Timothy Snyder](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timothy_D._Snyder) on Wikipedia.
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